Amusement apparatus.



T. HELLIESBN.

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

APPLIGATION FILED sn1=1.21,19oa.

929,13 Patented July 27, 1909.

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THORE HELLIESEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS specincation of Letters Patent.

' Patented July 27, 1909'.

Application filed September 21, 1908. Serial No. 453,991.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, Trionn HnLLinsnN, a

citizen of the United. States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Im rovements in Amusement Appa-V ratus, of w ich the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to amusement app aratus for use at summer resorts and other places, and the object thereof is to provide an improved amusement apparatus of the class known as Water merry-go-rounds; and with this object in view the invention consists in an apparatus of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which;-

Figure l is a plan view of my improved amusement apparatus, Fig. 2 a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and,-Fig. 3 a section on the same line as Fig. 2 but showing only the central part of the apparatus and showing it on an enlarged scale.

In the practice of my invention, l provide a tank a which is preferably circular in form and which may be constructed in any desired manner and of any preferred size, and at one side of which is a stage or platform a2. Within the tank a is placed a plurality of boats t which, in the construction shown, are four in number, and in the center of the tank and secured to the bottom thereof is a tubular standard c on the top ortion of which is mounted a rotatable coup ing head d which is held thereon by a nut or other suitable device 02, and the to ortion of the standard c is solid and provi e with an annular groove c3, and the coupling head d is provided with radial tubular couplings d2 which communicate with said groove.

In the construction shown two of the tubular couplings d2, are shown and connected with each by means of a iieXible sleeve e is a tube f, and these tubes extend radially of the standard c. The boats t, in the form of construction shown, are provided each with a main bottom b2 and a false bottom b3 bei tween which is a s ace t4 and connected with P i the outer ends of the tubes f by means of iiexible sleeves g are curved tubes h which pass into the spaces t* of the boats t and backwardly and through the stern walls of said boats as shown at b5. The boats t are connected directly by rods i, and the front or bow and stern portions of said boats are connected by rods With a rotatable disk mounted on the standard c below the coupling head d. Connected with the tubular standard c is a pipe if which extends radially from said standard and through the rim portion of the tank a and through which, in Y practice, water, air or steam under pressure may be passed into the tubular standard c. The top portion of the tubular standard c is provided with a port or passage c4 which communicates with the annular groove c3 and by means .of which the water, air or steam under pressure passes into said groove and out through the coupling head d and the tubular couplings Z2 and through the radially arranged pipes f.

The operation will be readily understood from the foregoing description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the following statement thereof.

The apparatus may be operated by water under pressure, air under pressure, or high pressure steam, and supposing that water under pressure is employed, this water passes through the tube 7c into the tubular standard c, through the port or passage c4 into the annular groove c3 from which it passes throu h the radial tubes f and through the curve discharge tubes h from which it is discharged at the stern of the boats b.

In practice the tank a is kept iilled or partially iilled with Water as shown at m in Figs. l and 2, and the operative parts of the apparatus except the boats b are under Water and the discharge of the water under pressure at the stern of the boats will set the apparatus in motion and the boats will be carried around the tank a, in which operation the coupling head d, kthe disk y'2, the tubes f and the rods 'i and y' all turn in the Water.

It will be understood, of course, that the dimensions of the variousy parts may be regulated as desired, and my invention is not limited to the use of the rods t and j, nor to the use of false bottoms Vin the boats b, and said boats may be connected one with another in any desired manner, and the curved discharge tubes h by means of which the propelling medium is discharged at the llO stern of the` boats may be connected with i parts except the boats being below the sursaid boats in any desired manner, and all of the boats 1f desired may be provided with the tubes f and 7i, and various other changes in and modifications of the construction de- Q scribed may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages. lt will also be apparent that the propelling medium or fluid maj,T be conveyed under pressure into the v central standard c in any desired manner, and my invention is not limited to the usevo'f the tubes f for this purpose.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An amusement apparatus comprisin(y a tank adapted to be filled with water, a p urality ol' boats placed in a circlev therein, a central hollow standard secured at the bottom ot' said tank, a rotatable cou ling head mounted thereon, pipes connecteriwith said coupling head and with the bottoms of said boats and adapted to discharge a propelling medium at the stern of the boats, and means whereby a propelling medium may be passed through said standard, through said coupling head, and through said pipes, all of said face o'l' the water when the tank is filled therewith.

' 2. An amusement apparatus comprising a tank adapted to be fil ed with water, a plurality of, boats placed in a circle therein, Ya central hollow standard secured at the bote tom of said tank, a rotatable coupling head mounted thereon, pipes connected with said coupling head and with the bottoms of said boats and adapted to discharge a propelling medium at the stern of the boats, and means whereby a propelling medium may be passed through said standard, through said coupling head, and through said pipes, all ol' said parte except the boats being below the surface of the water when the tank is filled therewith, means for connecting and spacing said boats, and rods connecting said boats with a rotatable member mounted on said standard.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my invention l have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 19th day oi September 1908.

THORE HELLIESEN. Witnesses:

A. R. APPLEMAN, C. E. MULREANY. 

